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Original Title:	Girl with a Pearl Earring
ISBN:	0452287022 (ISBN13: 9780452287020)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Johannes Vermeer, Griet, Pieter van Ruijven, Catharina Bolnes, Maria Thins, Tanneke, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Setting:	Delft(Netherlands) Delft,1664(Netherlands)
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2000), ALA Alex Award (2001), Lincoln Award Nominee (2006), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2001)

Girl with a Pearl Earring Paperback | Pages: 233 pages

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Title	:	Girl with a Pearl Earring
Author	:	Tracy Chevalier
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 233 pages
Published	:	2005 by Plume/Penguin (first published January 2000)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir

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With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries - and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.

Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model.

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Beautifully written and read aloud, this is an imagining of the possible life of the girl depicted in Vermeer's lovely painting.

This book is gorgeously written. I love that Chevalier makes up all these lives to give a back story to just this one painting. Well, that's not true. We actually see the painting of three or four of Vermeer's 35 through Griet's eyes. I know that I had to constantly pull up images of his paintings as I read to actually see what Griet was describing. I must also say that I have never been much of a Vermeer fan, but having read about Vermeer through Griet's eyes, I see his paintings as much more

I know almost nothing about art, but even I can tell that Girl With a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer is a brilliant painting; 'captivating' is probably the best word to describe it. One presumes that Chevalier agrees with me, and this is what lead her to write a novel about the painting, its subject and its creator. So, is the novel as captivating as the piece that inspired it?The short answer would be 'no'.Now for the longer answer...Chevalier is probably one of the best-known historical

I loved this. I don't say that often enough about a book. I was impressed with the writing, completely invested in the story and pleased with the ending. It's not easy to tick all those boxes, especially in a relatively short story. What more can I say.

I've been hearing good things about this book for years. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, everyone I know?? I found the prose artificially concise (as if she had purposely limited her vocabulary by a factor of ten, or as if the narrator was Dutch but just learning English), the characters completely flat and unbelievable, and the rise in drama both ill-explained and uninteresting. I did not like or feel compassionate toward a single character, I didn't feel any catharsis about ANYTHING, and I understood

I heard voices outside our front door - a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur. The Girl With the Pearl EarringWhen the Vermeers came to visit Griets home she had no idea they were there for her. Her parents had decided, given their near destitution, to find Griet a position as a maid with a wealthy

An evocative look at life in Delft, Holland in the 1600s. A quietly gripping tale of what might have been. The story is a fictionalised account of the circumstances surrounding the painting of Vermeers masterpiece Girl with a pearl earring.Griet, the central character, is a strong, honourable, modest and likeable character and the events that overtake her, because of the sensibilities of the age, are tense and exciting. The writing is smooth, exact and fluent. I would often flick to the cover to